Year 7 Mathematics

READING TASKS

So you think you've got problems?

Read So you think you’ve got problems?’, by Alex Bellos. Surprising and rewarding puzzles to sharpen your mind.

100 essential things you didn’t know about Maths and the Arts

Read ‘100 essential things you didn’t know about Maths and the Arts’, by John D Barrow. Enlivening the everyday with a new way of looking at the world, this book will enrich your understanding of the maths and art that surround us in our day-to-day lives.

Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry

Read Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry by Matt Parker. Explore  as he demonstrates why there’s more to triangles than Pythagoras and SOHCAHTOA. Triangles are everything and everything is triangles.

LISTENING TASKS

Simon Singh’s Five Numbers

Listen to 5 BBC Radio 4 podcasts on BBC Radio 4 - Simon Singh's Numbers, Five Numbers’

A Brief History of Mathematics

A BBC Radio 4 podcast by Marcus du Sautoy Listen to all 10 episodes.

More or Less

Listen to Tim Harford explain - and sometimes debunk - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life. 'BBC Radio 4 - More or Less'

WATCHING TASKS

The Man Who Knew Infinity

Watch ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’, starring Dev Patel. Enjoy the biography based drama about the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

The Maths Show with Matt Parker

Watch BBC Teach: The Maths Show with Matt Parker

Watch The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch. This film looks into Alan Turing and his team who decrypted German intelligence messages for the British government during World War II.

CHALLENGE

Wild Maths

Wild Maths – explore, imagine, experiment, create! Try and explore one of the games from the nrich site.